Dor Guez

Dor Guez was born in Jerusalem to a mixed Jewish-Arab family from Lod. After serving in the Israel Defense Forces he studied photography at the Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design. His photographic output, which includes video and stills, explores questions of personal and national identity and documents the Jewish-Arab conflict using archival and personal materials. In his 2011 series "The Nation's Groves," for example, Guez photographs pine forests planted by the Jewish National Fund as part of its afforestation campaign. In 2009-2011, in addition to his artistic work, Guez wrote his doctorate on the Zionist Archives in Israel and established a new photography archive on the Palestinian-Christian community in the Middle East.

Guez creates what he calls "scanograms" by running old family photographs through scanners to produce a 3-dimensional effect. Among his best-known works are "Watermelons under the bed" (08:13 min., 2010) and "Two Palestinian riders, Ben Shemen Forest (2011).